Jerome Eteve

• Website: www.eteve.net
• About: I'm a Perl programmer and I blog about Perl and other stuff.

Recent Actions

• Posted Mason - A Template system for us programmers to Jerome Eteve

  Templating Modules are a bit like editors. Every web application developer has a favourite one. And every template system is someone's favorite.

  Mine is Mason. But not because the Perl MVC tutorials are full of examples using Mason. Not because it's the fastest (use xSlate if you want to t…

• Commented on When you a need a number
  I had to use the trick quite often as our EcmaScript friend is picky about this kind of thing. In my cases I just added 0 though, because I know in advance I've got an integer....
• Posted The only bad thing about Mason to Jerome Eteve

  At the moment, I'm writing a presentation about Mason2. The goal is to somehow convince my colleagues to consider using Mason. Instead of Template Toolkit.
  …

• Posted Give your application a shell (and never write any ad-hoc scripts again) to Jerome Eteve

  As developers, we sometimes have to help operations going smoothly by fiddling with the data "by hand" because there's no GUI to allow people doing some rare and obscure things. One common way of doing it is by connecting to the DB and writing some SQL. But often, accessing your database is not…

• Commented on Speaking at QCon London next month
  Would love to go, but I can't really afford spending 1.5k + VAT + 3 days off work on it. Sometimes I wonder what kind of programmer can afford these, when the same money would buy them a brand new...
• Commented on Subtle Template Toolkit bug / quiz
  For someone accustomed to Perl, TT is often full of (good or bad) surprises.. Which is quite unfortunate, given the fact that it's mainly used in Perl based shops....
• Commented on Form Rendering: Why Do We Even Bother?
  I totally agree, HTML form rendering is one of those area where an general 'one size fits all' solution is doomed to fail, regardless of its level of complexity (that some people call 'flexibility'). When I say fail, it doesn't...
• Posted Friday Time Waster: Watch the world go by in ASCII with Reuters' API to Jerome Eteve

  I've recently released WebService::ReutersConnect. It's a Perl modules that interfaces with the ReutersConnect's API in OO style. To demonstrate it and hopefully entertain you on this Friday, here's how to use it to watch…

• Posted Understanding Unicode/UTF8 in Perl to Jerome Eteve

  I'm not a Unicode Guru, but working with third parties, I often find that a lot of people consistently fail to get the basics right about Unicode and encoding. So here's yet another set of slides about unicode/utf8 in Perl.

  It's not meant to be a comprehensive presentation of all Unicode …

• Commented on The goodness of testing
  Hi Fishi Shlom, speaking with people around me, I found little consensus about the statement 'testing is your product'. This is of course not strictly true, but I still think strong statements tend to stick in mind. Makes it easy...
• Posted The goodness of testing to Jerome Eteve

  This is not strictly related to Perl, but I was thinking about my practice of testing recently and I've come to some conclusions, some of them proving to be a bit controversial. Read more here and have your say!

• Commented on Extensible Maintainable Subroutines and Methods
  Well, if Perl5 had had real named arguments like Python, the hash workaround would not have been necessary. But it's Perl so most deficiency has a workaround :) True, there's plenty of modules up there to turn Perl code into...
• Commented on Extensible Maintainable Subroutines and Methods
  I sometimes use this technique although I've always been unconfortable with it for several reason: - This is stringly typed code, but well, it's Perl so why should we care :) - It can lead to parameters inflation. Facing a...
• Commented on The best widget set to create a GUI program in Perl
  What about GTK (2)? I remember using it from C something like 10 years ago (do'h) and it did the job very well. afaik, it also exists for Window$...

Comment Threads

• Damian Conway commented on Speaking at QCon London next month

  @dolmen: Thanks for pointing that out. I've now updated it for my entire European trip.

• Toby Inkster commented on When you a need a number

  There's JSON::Types to make this sort of thing easy peasy.

• dakkar commented on When you a need a number

  looks_like_number is usually fine, until you get a string like "815E12" which probably should not be converted to a number, but it will (that's 815*10^12).
  

• Joel Berger commented on When you a need a number

  Depends on who you are, I definitely would want that converted to a number!

• Toby Inkster commented on When you a need a number

  If it were a "distance" field, yes; if "product_code", probably not.